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concealed when the drop had evaporated. The 
appearance of the three wheel animals then 
changed, not only in the lofs of motion and all 
femblance of life, but, from a great diminution of 
fize, they became three minute corpufcula, fo 
diftorted that it was impoffible to recognife them 
for what they had originally been, fig. 4. A. 
Bec. 
They were about an hour in this ftate of ap- 
parent death. I then put a drop of the fame wa- 
ter on them that had evaporated. The reader 
may well conceive my attention in obferving the 
refurreCtion, which was fuccefsful as I had an- 
ticipated. Ina few minutes, the animals began 
to fwell, and a point appeared in one part, D, 
fig. 4. The pointed part moved by reciprocal 
extenfion and contraction ; and the oppofite part, 
having alfo become pointed, began to move. 
Thefe points were the animal’s head and tail, 
proceeding from the place where they had been 
retracted and concealed, on evaporation of the 
drop. The tranfverfe annuli, the longitudinal 
rays, the internal and external organs, all re-ap- 
peared. ‘The three wheel animals foon refumed 
their original fize and figure ; they traverfed the 
fand, and fhewed themfelves to be alive and moft 
vivacious. 
Difcovering fome more wheel animals in the 
fand of fewers, I repeated thefe experiments, and 
found 
